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[Illustration: The Devil  ILLUSTRATED  MOLNAR]


[Illustration: DR. MILLAR: "WHAT AN IDEAL COUPLE YOU TWO WOULD
MAKE."--Page 56. By Permission of Henry W. Savage.]




THE DEVIL

A TRAGEDY OF THE HEART AND CONSCIENCE

_Novelized by Joseph O'Brien from Henry W. Savage's great play_

BY FERENC MOLNAR

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY AMERICAN-JOURNAL-EXAMINER.

COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY.




FOREWORD


There is a great lesson for all women and men in this wonderful story.
It is one that will impress with its power. But I am glad to say that I
do not believe fully in its truth. The Devil here wins his victory, as
he has won many. But each year, as men and women get better, the
victories of Satan are fewer. Good men and good women fight against evil
and do not yield.

This tragic, heart-breaking story, by the wonderful new writer, te